Do you leave side on or off?

[Kristall-99]

neither, i run caseless, always quicker to change hardware when needed

[PoppyLlama]

On, i get better temps, and it looks better too

[disruptfam]

Off then on then off then back on then .... see the trend here....

[Shocker003]

My side panel is 2.4.7 on. Basically it helps in keeping the dust and noise down. It equally helps me in getting my mind off my old hardwares, which has been pleading for an upgrade.

[chunkylover77]

I have little kids who are both pretty curious. It would be a disaster if I left the side off.

[day187]

depends on who is coming around

[Volkum]

I leave it on ever since I did my mesh mod.

[Bobsama]

It's on--I like the silence and the side-panel has a massive 36CM fan!!

[Nate P.]

Caseless for now, but I have HSPC tech station coming... not much better I guess.

[deepsilver]

[X] On

otherwise I could clean my case every week.

[xTKxhom3r]

i just leave it open better airflow...

[Got_Vtec?]

on my 900 i had to keep my side panel on being that i have a fan mounted to the panel pulling air onto the graphics cards, i took the panel off for a day the temps changed a lot, the graphics card got hotter, the mother board got hotter, and the cpu was hotter.

[Chewbenator]

The way I have my case set up the air comes through the radiator in the bottom and either through the back, front, or mainly top. So taking the case side off actually increases the GPU temps because not as much air is being pulled past the video card. The CPU temps stay the same because it is being cooled by the rad that takes outside air in anyway. Depending on how you have your case set up it can be beneficial one way or the other.